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May 3, 2024 · Panicked colonists, waiting for Opechancanough to follow up on his initial assaults, suffered from severe food shortages during the winter of 1622–1623; Opechancanough, meanwhile, likely hoped that they would just abandon Virginia.
May 15, 2024 · When Native Americans burned Mendon in 1675, Thomson was among the first settlers to return and rebuild. History strongly suggests that John Thomson was the first Englishman born in New Hampshire and, therefore, the first white settler born in Portsmouth. Thomson apparently never tried to reclaim his parent’s property at Pannaway.
5 days ago · Nov. 7. 49. Warrant from the Commissioners for Virginia. Sundry petitions concerning the colony having been referred to them for examination, they require a trunk of writings locked up under the custody of one of the clerks of the Privy Council, to be delivered to the bearer.
21 hours ago · This painting by Adolf Alexander Dillens, completed between 1847 and 1852, depicts Joan of Arc being captured by Burgundians on May 23, 1430. Arc’s prominence in the center of the painting speaks to the importance she gained as a national figure in the centuries after her life.
1 day ago · File Photo by Joe Mitchell/UPI | License Photo. Today is Wednesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2024 with 223 to follow. The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn and Venus ...
May 16, 2024 · 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Project Mercury; 1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan; 1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1 day ago · Today in History Today is Wednesday, May 22, the 143rd day of 2024. There are 223 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On May 22, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson…
